California hospital aggressive approach to Obamacare, enlists 'uninsured' in ER..

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It is no accident that California is highly successful in a state that has its own health care exchange and has opted into the "Medicaid expansion." Hundreds of thousands have qualified for Medi-Cal, the state's Medicaid program. The options for Californians are plentiful.

There is this example at O'Connor Hospital in San Jose, Calif. nothing like a captive audience. Araceli Martinez works in the building at the Hospital and runs the Health Benefits Resource Center just down the hall from the ER at the hospital. The Center has beefed up staffing and hours in response to the Affordable Care Act, says a report from NPR on enrolling "insured" patients in emergency rooms.

Seems the department pays for itself because 5,000 "uninsured" people come into O'Connor Hospital's emergency department each year. It is the job Martinez and others that work at the Center to help the "uninsured" find health care coverage.

The state of California has the highest number of "uninsured" in the country, with 7,106,100 residents according to the Kaiser Foundation, without coverage before Obamacare went into full swing and one of the highest percentages of "uninsured" at 19 percent of the population.




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